I should probably point out I'm a Scot and find this all endlessly funny.
There is not a trace of anachronism in the Pearl's production to prod such comparisons, just a deep understanding of the text, revealing how contemporary Wilde can seem in this endlessly funny comedy about courtship, hidden identities and social posturing among deliciously superficial people.
Gerry is garrulous and endlessly funny, but when it comes to wine he's a fanatical traditionalist: wine should taste like where it came from, and wines shouldn't be manipulated into big alcoholic bruisers crammed with "jammy" fruit.
One of the early Sire Records promotional shirts had "Ramones" in quotation marks, which is honestly endlessly funny to me, and I now despise every band that doesn't have their name in quotation marks on their shirts.
Nancy Walworth will be remembered as a wonderful mother and friend, very funny, endlessly curious, committed and caring, always in your corner, rain or shine.
I was both intimidated and endlessly curious.
As far as I know, my father never in his life read a comic strip, and my mother's interest in the funnies was limited to a single-panel feature called "The Girls," whose generic middle-aged matrons, with their weight problems and stinginess and poor driving skills and weakness for department-store bargains, she found just endlessly amusing.
"Humor is a dreadful curse, and Robin was like Midas, being funny endlessly," says old friend and Monty Python alumnus Eric Idle.
Who knew that on Friday night, he'd befuddle and delight the 3,000-odd 3,000-odd-and-evening-gown attendees at the gala, which raises money for musicians in need, with a biting, funny, endlessly quotablack-tie-and-evening-gownch that ran like an epic Dylan lyrical composithen.
As a look into how politics worked in the mid-1800s, and of course how it still works today, it's surprisingly funny and endlessly compelling.
He's been funny on the endlessly disturbing subject for so long that it's a wonder he isn't much better known.
